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A2 Wednesday, May 24,1995 The Salina Journal Coming to Salina: Four more movie screens Central Mall theater to double in size By DAVID CLOUSTON The Salina Journal Four new movie screens will be coming to Salina next year, as Dickinson Theatres announced plans Tuesday to expand from a four-plex to an eight-plex cinema at the Central Mall. Design and construction of the four new movie theaters should be completed by spring 1996, said Gary Downs, marketing director for Dickinson Theatres in Mission. "Salina is a very important city for our company; we have been in Salina since the late '40s, with the 81 Drive-In and then the Vogue Theatre," Dickinson's president, Wood Dickinson, said in a written statement. "We have a great relationship with the people of Salina and the surrounding community. These four brand new state-of-the-art theatres will increase the Central Mall Cinemas to an eight-plex, which will encourage new moviegoers to enjoy motion pictures as never before." The new Central Mall Cinemas 8 addition will add 11,000 square feet to the theater complex inside the mall.

It will double the number of seats to nearly 2,000. Ed armack, of Warmack Partnership in Fort Smith, owner of the mall, said negotiations with Dickinson about the expansion have been under way for two to three years. He said Dickinson had a choice of expanding its mall location or building a stand-alone cineplex elsewhere, possibly at the site of the old 81 Drive-In, at the intersection of South Ninth and Belmont. A row of small shops will be constructed in the vacant area on the south side of the hallway leading east into Sears, across from the new Rusty's Outdoor Sports store, which is on the north side of the hall. The four new theaters will be constructed behind the row of shops on the south and adjacent to the existing theaters.

"We're hopefully going to design it so we can share the lobby, the box office and concession stand, similar to what it is now," Downs said. "It does two things. It creates a nice big multiscreen complex. And they can operate this for less money than by creating a second "I'm not so sure what Salina couldn't support 12 first-run theaters." Gary Downs, Dickinson Theatres down ticket prices, but costs keep increasing in the industry, he said. Evening shows cost $5.50 in Salina; in the Kansas City area they Some movie houses on the charge $8 a ticket, JIM KNIGHT Life Insurance Health Insurance Annuity Investments Phone 827-1154 run East Coast Downs said.

group of screens," Warmack said. Downs said a design and budget for the new theaters has not been set, but they could feature several new innovations in technology and patron comfort. Some examples are soft, high-back rocker chairs, curved big screens, and digital sound systems. Dickinson doesn't plan to close any of its other theaters, Downs said. He said it's also not been decided whether "dollar" movies films older than first-run movies and carrying cheaper ticket prices will make a return to the city at one of the theatres.

Such movies were shown at the downtown Vogue Theatre until it closed in September. "The film companies have been producing more and more first- run product. I'm not so sure what Salina couldn't support 12 first-run theaters," Downs said. It's also not likely that a movie would play on more than two screens at any given time, he said. That eliminates the possibility of an action-adventure like "Die Hard with a Vengeance" playing in four theaters at once, for instance.

But the expansion also doesn't mean Salina will be getting the kinds of movies some criticize the movie chain for not showing controversial dramas, or critically acclaimed movies without mass- market appeal. "Along the art film lines, there's a good reason they don't stick around long. It's because people don't go to see them," Downs said. The company, he said, can't book a film that might draw just 60 to 80 people to the theater. Downs said Dickinson Theatres has been aggressively expanding the past four years.

In Olathe, for instance, plans are being developed for a 14-theater complex in the new Great Mall of the Great Plains, just off Interstate 35. The company has tried to hold "A major cost is the film rental from the film companies. And advertising rates go up every six months to a year. Labor goes up. It's hard to find people to work for minimum wage," he said.

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